Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1879 — How Gov. Randolph Was Arrested. [ARTICLE]

How Gov. Randolph Was Arrested.

It is related that while Thomas Mtuin Randolph was Governor of Virginia he was once arrested within a few hundred yards of his home, in this county, and carried a prisoner to his own house. The story is to the following effect: The Governor was on a visit to his home, and finding that the fencing on his plantation was pulled down and burned by wagoners passing along from the valley to Richmond, he determined to detect and punish them. One evening ho observed a party go into camp on the roadside, and after dark he strolled down to a point where he could conveniently watch them. He staid out all night, but the wagoners made no depredations on his fences. In the early morning, however, yrhen they were about to kindle their fires to prepare breakfast, they started out to gather up what fuel they might find for when they spied a man sitting on the fence a short distance ahead. Now, it appears that a short time before, Gov. Randolph had issued his proclamation, offering a reward for tho capture of an escaped horse-thief, and the wagoners, who had seen the description of tho convict, thought they discovered a close resemblance between the man on the fence and the escaped felon. So thoroughly satisfied wore -they thatthey w»«W receive the reward for his arre3t that they approached and announced that he was their prisoner. One of them proposed, as he cracked his wagon-whip, to give him a thrashing and let him go, but his companion protested that it was proper to ascertain certainly whether he was tty© guilty party before inflicting the punishment, and proposed to 1 take him to the residence of Gov. Randolph, near by, and get his advice. Accordingly, they marched their prisoner up to tbe house, and, knocking at the front door, a servant made his appearance, of whom they inquired: “ Is vour master at home?”

Tho negro opened his eyes in astonishment at the inquiry, and replied, pointing to the Governor: “That’s master!” It is said that tho Governor then promptly confirmed the statement of the servant, and joined heartily in the laugh that followed. He then told the man who had proposed to whip iim without tho opportunity of defense to remain outside aqd he would send him a morning dram, at the same time unbuttoning his coat, exposing a pair of horse-pistols, and he remarked that he Bhoula certainly have used them had an attempt been made to carry the t lye at of castigation into execution. The other wagoner he invited to join him in a hot breakfast— Charlottesville ( Va .) Chronicle.

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